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Ophiomastix Müller & Troschel, 1842

204164  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204164)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Asterozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Ophiuroidea (Class)
  6. Myophiuroida (Subclass)
  7. Metophiurida (Infraclass)
  8. Ophintegrida (Superorder)
  9. Ophiacanthida (Order)
  10. Ophiodermatina (Suborder)
  11. Ophiocomoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Ophiocomidae (Family)
  13. Ophiomastix (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Ophiarthrum Peters, 1851 · unaccepted (Synonymized by O'Hara et al. (2018))
Ophiomastix (Acantharachna) · unaccepted (type species synonymized)

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  1. Species Ophiomastix annulosa (Lamarck, 1816)
  2. Species Ophiomastix asperula Lütken, 1869
  3. Species Ophiomastix brocki O'Hara in O'Hara et al., 2018
  4. Species Ophiomastix caryophyllata Lütken, 1869
  5. Species Ophiomastix corallicola H.L. Clark, 1915
  6. Species Ophiomastix elegans (Peters, 1851)
  7. Species Ophiomastix endeani (Rowe & Pawson, 1977)
  8. Species Ophiomastix flaccida Lyman, 1874
  9. Species Ophiomastix janualis Lyman, 1871
  10. Species Ophiomastix koehleri Devaney, 1977
  11. Species Ophiomastix lymani (de Loriol, 1893)
  12. Species Ophiomastix macroplaca (H.L. Clark, 1915)
  13. Species Ophiomastix marshallensis Devaney, 1978
  14. Species Ophiomastix mixta Lütken, 1869
  15. Species Ophiomastix occidentalis (H.L. Clark, 1938)
  16. Species Ophiomastix ornata Koehler, 1905
  17. Species Ophiomastix palaoensis Murakami, 1943
  18. Species Ophiomastix pictum (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
  19. Species Ophiomastix stenozonula Devaney, 1974
  20. Species Ophiomastix variabilis Koehler, 1905
  21. Species Ophiomastix venosa Peters, 1851
  22. Species Ophiomastix wendtii (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
  23. Subgenus Ophiomastix (Acantharachna) accepted as Ophiomastix Müller & Troschel, 1842 (type species synonymized)
    1. Species Ophiomastix (Acantharachna) mirabilis Smith, 1878 accepted as Ophiomastix flaccida Lyman, 1874
  24. Species Ophiomastix bispinosa H.L. Clark, 1917 accepted as Ophiomastix variabilis Koehler, 1905
  25. Species Ophiomastix elegans Brock, 1888 accepted as Ophiomastix brocki O'Hara in O'Hara et al., 2018 (Homonym after transfer of Ophiarthrum elegans to Ophiomastix by O'Hara et al. (2019))
  26. Species Ophiomastix luetkeni Pfeffer, 1900 accepted as Ophiomastix janualis Lyman, 1871
  27. Species Ophiomastix notabilis H.L. Clark, 1938 accepted as Ophiomastix variabilis Koehler, 1905
  28. Species Ophiomastix pusilla Brock, 1888 accepted as Ophiocoma pusilla (Brock, 1888) accepted as Breviturma pusilla (Brock, 1888)
  29. Species Ophiomastix sexradiata A.H. Clark, 1952 accepted as Ophiocomella sexradia (Duncan, 1887)
  30. Species Ophiomastix australis (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. <em>Vieweg: Braunschweig.</em> xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 [details] OpenAccess publication
Stöhr, S.; O’Hara, T.; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2025). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiomastix Müller & Troschel, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204164 on 2025-05-11
Date
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1998-08-04 14:17:36Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-20 08:24:09Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2006-09-26 06:56:50Z
changed
Martinez, Olga
2007-07-12 13:29:01Z
checked
Stöhr, Sabine
2008-10-15 08:22:19Z
changed
Stöhr, Sabine
2018-03-26 09:46:40Z
changed
Stöhr, Sabine

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Nomenclature

original description Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. <em>Vieweg: Braunschweig.</em> xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Ophiarthrum Peters, 1851) Peters, W. (1851). Übersicht der an der Küste von Mossambique eingesammelten Ophiuren, unter denen sich zwei neue Gattungen befinden. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1851.</em> 463-466. [details] 

original description (of Ophiomastix (Acantharachna)) Smith, E.A. (1878). Description of Acantharachna mirabilis, a new form of Ophiuridae. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 13: 335-337, pl. XVIII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31597593
page(s): 335 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Cherbonnier, G.; Guille, A. (1978). Echinodermes: Ophiurides. <em>Faune de Madagascar, 48.</em> Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS): Paris. ISBN 2-222-02341-6. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source O'Hara, T. D.; Stöhr, S.; Hugall, A. F.; Thuy, B.; Martynov, A. (2018). Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> (416)., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.416 [details] OpenAccess publication

source of synonymy O'Hara, T. D.; Hugall, A. F.; Cisternas, P. A.; Boissin, E.; Bribiesca-Contreras, G.; Sellanes, J.; Paulay, G.; Byrne, M. (2019). Phylogenomics, life history and morphological evolution of ophiocomid brittlestars. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 130: 67-80., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.003 [details] 

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details] 

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Unreviewed
Remark In family Ophiuridae in Ludwig (1899).
Type species: Ophiura annulosa Lamarck, 1816 by monotypy (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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LanguageName 
Japanese オハグロクモヒトデ属 [from synonym]アカクモヒトデ属  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Ophiarthrum Peters, 1851)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiarthrum) (from synonym Ophiarthrum Peters, 1851)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ophiomastix) 
To Genbank (from synonym Ophiarthrum Peters, 1851)
To Genbank 
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